Category: Antiwork

Faked a “major injury that I can’t recover from” because due to an accident (which I really think is them framing me) my checks have to be cut in half because a dog ate a toy apparently on my watch and it’s 3k to remove it. Meaning I’d have to worn years to pay it off. After 100 hours of work in two weeks I was texted I’ll be paid 200 dollars due to this incident. I quit two days before I had to work again and she’s been spam calling me and calling me ridiculous. I feel bad for lying but I’m genuinely so burned out and I can’t afford to live off such little money, I didn’t want to say that because even if they tripled my salary I don’t want to come back. They said they’ll pay me Thursday but I doubt I’ll ever see that money…

Took a new job in a “very low cost of living” city about 2 years ago with a decent starting salary of ~$100k. This city typically shows up in the top 5 cheapest places to live in the US so I was hoping to finally buy a house. Fast forward to today and my pay has barely increased but everything else has skyrocketed. Seems that a lot of people are moving to the city seeking a more affordable lifestyle. I've been saving for a down payment but housing prices are increasing faster than I can save. More than doubled since 2021. I keep lowering my standards but the homes in my price range truly horrific. Mold everywhere, missing walls, major water damage… I felt like I finally MADE IT with my six figure salary but the American Dream seems less obtainable than ever. At this point I'm just hoping for…

I am one of the most reliable people at my workplace. We are already understaffed and people call out so often (daily! Sometimes for days or weeks) I am always called in early, asked to stay late, or work alone with no support. I can only do this for so long before I emotionally and mentally fizzle out and I HAVE TO “chuck a sickie” because I’M SO FUCKING TIRED! No I don’t have food posing. No, I don’t have covid, no I don’t have to rush my dog to the vet. All completely legit reasons to call out of work and no one bats an eye lid. No, IM FUCKING EXHAUSTED. My body aches, my brain can’t take any more, my nerves are shot. I had to waste a doctors appt to get a fucking sick note because I had to walk the fuck out of work today because…

Oh you want me to try even less than I am now? game on!

Basically, my brother works for a pizza delivery place. An order came for the other driver who wasn’t there at the time(later found out to be sleeping in his car) so my brother asked his manager if he should go ahead and take the delivery and he said yes. So he took the delivery, then when he got back the other driver showed up and complained that he was stealing their deliveries and the manager told my brother that since he was stealing deliveries, all of his tips for the night were getting taken away and given to the other driver. Is that wage theft?

I work at a grocery store and every quarter, we get a bonus depending on how much money the store made those 3 months, and the bonus is a certain percentage. I am SEETHING because full-timers got a few hundred (one of them got $850), while me and other part-timers barely got $100 (I got like $80). I am TIRED of corporate treating part-timers like ABSOLUTE SHIT. part-timers cover shifts, help a LOT more, a lot of other differences than full-time who just do ONE thing. Why not just give everyone the same amount??? Part-timers could use that money too, it's not just teenagers working part-time!!!!!! I am SO fucking over it.

I was sick last night, was meant to work at 10-7 today. I called and my manager was fine with it she was like yea that’s fine no worries, bla bla bla. I have severe anxiety and depression so this was a hard phone call to make in the first place. My manager then sends me a message saying I need a doctors note other wise I’m going to get a ‘strike’. This has made me very uncomfortable because I was only sick, I didn’t need to go to the doctors, I just needed to rest and get over my illness. I’m on the search for a new job. I’m going to call my doctors and see if I can get a sick note for a week so I can sort my self out a little (im not in the best place head wise) and when I go back, if…

Some employers ask you to state your desired salary in their application (rather than advertising it themselves). This has always struck me as a way to pre-empt the negotiating power of the potential applicant by outing and eliminating potential applicants whose salary expectations are higher than what the company would like to offer. In this situation, is it better to state your maximum desired salary first, or simply to leave the question blank?

Hello. I just wanted to vent because I left my Front Desk job 4 days ago. I was a Front Desk Agent/Lead for a year and 7 months. It feels weird leaving I didn't expect to be working in the hotel industry but I did it because of the money. Also, I thought this was going to be my forever job since I love everyone on the team so much but things changed. A little bit of back story. I was a hairstylist for 5 years and ever since covid happened, it hit me hard in the hair career. I could not work for a whole year due to covid restrictions but after covid started to die down a bit, I did do job searching for at least 6 months. I did probably 6 interviews but didn't get any offers at all. Those jobs I signed up for was mainly…